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Portrait Paintings For Sale
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The room is on fire as she's fixing her hair
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Léo Dorfner offers a punk reading that disturbs interpretations that are too pious. His reappropriation of media representations, advertising icons, snippets of everyday life and vi...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Spring
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Portrait of a girl in a headscarf with a samovar
Category

2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Fix your hair
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
Cubans in national headdresses and dresses in the process of communication. One girl fixes another's hair
Category

2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

French Contemporary Art by Alexandre Akar - Blue Mobile
Located in Paris, IDF
Alexandre Akar is a French artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Gennevilliers, France.
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The inner peace
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
The main thing in life is to save your own inner peace, on the left Buddha - he is calm and peaceful, on the right is our everyday’s life with all troubles...
Category

2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Winner V, Oil on Canvas Painting by Ognian Zekoff, 2019
Located in London, GB
The Winner V, Oil on Canvas Painting by Ognian Zekoff, 2019 Through the plethora of meaningless images that flood our daily experiences, there are very few, which we encounter, that...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

tgb C. 1-17, Mixed Media on Canvas Painting by Sebastian Herzau, 2017
Located in London, GB
tgb C. 1-17, Mixed Media on Canvas Painting by Sebastian Herzau, 2017 Painting both portraits and landscapes, Sebastian Herzau’s artworks share a common blurred, enigmatic effect th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Novus Amor, Novis Vita XII, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu
Located in London, GB
Novus Amor, Novis Vita XII, Mixed media Painting by Anca Stefanescu Instead of painting external realities, Anca Stefanescu depicts her inner spiritual experiences. Her working proc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Pension Fund
Located in Aberdeen Dyce, GB
The picture "Pension Fund" is included in the series of artworks "Pathos of the Bureaucracy". 100x100cm / oil on canvas/ 2019 The picture is ready t...
Category

2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spanish girl with headscarf
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard Beige wooden frame 56.5 x 43.5 x 4 cm
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Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Fragile Protection
Located in Spetses, GR
One of those pieces you could stare at all day long. Part of Fotiadou's 'Eternity' series, this painting was exhibited in the solo exhibition in Athens. Sofia is an exceptional Greek...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mircea Marosin (1921-2007) - 20th Century Oil, Woman in White
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On card.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Terry Shelbourne (1930-2020) - 1972 Oil, Portrait of The Artist's Brother
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine oil portrait by Terry Shelbourne of his brother Michael Shelbourne. Inscribed to the reverse with the name of the sitter and with a heartwarming note "The World's Best Brother...
Category

20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 2008 Oil, Happy Hamilton
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine portrait of Louis Hamilton, the Formula 1 driver, lifting the Australian Grand Prix trophy above his head, smiling. The painting has been signed...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 20th Century Oil, Portrait of Andre Agassi
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On canvas board.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Swiss Miss
Located in Corsham, GB
A characterful contemporary oil portrait showing a woman in traditional Swiss attire including a fanned black headdress. The artist has signed to the...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Jolly Chap
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine portrait of a jovial man in a pointed white hat with a jovial smile. The painting is unsigned and presented on board. On board.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Woman In Green
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine oil portrait of a woman with cropped hair. The modernist style and stylized palette lend much character and charm to this painting. The painting is unsigned on board. On board.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 2003 Oil, The Blue Turban
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine portrait in oil, depicting a male figure wearing a blue turban. Signed and dated to the lower left-hand corner. There is a 'Mall Galleries' label at...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 1993 Oil, The Art Collector
Located in Corsham, GB
Well presented in a painted frame with molding detail. Signed and dated. On board.
Category

20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 1996 Oil, Back to Dickensian Days
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed and dated to the lower left-hand corner. There is a 'Mall Galleries' label on the reverse inscribed with additional details. Presented in an off-white frame with a gilt outer ...
Category

20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Disgruntled Man
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine, characterful portrait of a disgruntled old man in a jacket and tie. The painting is unsigned on board. On board.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 2007 Oil, Rick Stein
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful portrait of Christopher Richard "Rick" Stein, an English celebrity chef, restaurateur and television presenter. Signed and dated to the lower right-hand corner.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Male Head Study
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine oil head study of a characterful man with quaffed hair and a white beard. The painting is unsigned, on board. There is a less worked study of the same man on the reverse of th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Lady With Daisies
Located in Corsham, GB
A feminine portrait showing an elegant woman in white, sitting with her hands gently poised, next to a vase of daisies. The painting is unsigned, on bo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Smiling Nurse
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine portrait in oil, showing a woman in a nurse's uniform, with a kindly smile. The artist has signed to the reverse and there is a label at the reverse with the artist's name and...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 1977 Oil, Barbara's Jubilee Hat
Located in Corsham, GB
A jolly self portrait of Barbara Doyle in her jubilee hat and matching jumper. The artist smiles a soft smile with a direct gaze. The painting has been signed and dated in the lower ...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, An Earnest Smile
Located in Corsham, GB
A fun portrait in oil showing a jolly man with an earnest smile in a blue hued palette. The painting has been signed at the reverse and is on wooden panel. On wood panel.
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, Otto Conducts
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine portrait of the Polish conductor , Otto Klemperer, showing him deeply involved in the music and the action of conducting an orchestra. There is a label at the reverse with the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 20th Century Oil, Taking Notes
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful oil painting by the artist Barbara Doyle, depicting an interior scene with a lady taking notes. Unsigned. Presented in a distressed off-white contemporary frame. On board.
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - Contemporary Oil, The Matron
Located in Corsham, GB
A plump, matronly woman sits on a bench, holding a yellow book in her lap in the folds of her white apron. The artist has captured much character with impr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Barbara Doyle (b.1917) - 1996 Oil, Carmen Barbara
Located in Corsham, GB
A portrait of a jolly woman with a flamboyant floral headdress. The artist has used a blue palette that makes the areas of yellow and red used for the jacket and headdress stand out ...
Category

20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Nora Braham - Framed Early 20th Century Oil, Historical Model
Located in Corsham, GB
An unusual portrait of a middle aged woman dressed in 19th century Quaker costume, by Nora Braham. Braham was a student at the Slade School and it is very likely this painting was co...
Category

20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Edward Lewis (1936-2018) - Contemporary Oil, Simon
Located in Corsham, GB
In this life study, paint has been applied in a fast, expressive manner to render a lively and expressive study of a nude. The artwork radiates energy in an honest and undiluted mann...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Edward Lewis (1936-2018) - Framed Contemporary Oil, Impressionistic Portrait
Located in Corsham, GB
A violet sky provides a glowing background to bold brush strokes, rendering an atmospheric portrait of a woman deep in thought. On board.
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Edward Lewis (1936-2018) - Contemporary Oil, Pastel Nude
Located in Corsham, GB
Full of Frauvristic qualities, pastel oils have been applied in a rich painterly manner to depict an expressive study of a nude woman. The artwork has chips to the corners, revealing...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

William Austin (b.1940) - 1998 Acrylic, Schoolgirls
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderful contemporary study by the artist William Austin, depicting three schoolgirls.Completed in his delightfully unique style. Well presented in a...
Category

20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Susan Paine - Signed Mid 20th Century Oil, On the Red Chair
Located in Corsham, GB
Stark reds and tender green hues are combined to fantastic effect in this glowing depiction of a seated woman. The painting has been finished with raw and obvious brush strokes, givi...
Category

20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Susan Paine - 20th Century Oil, Deshabille
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine and expressive oil painting by the British artist Susan Paine. Here, in thick and intense brush strokes, Paine depicts a female figure in her undergarments, gazing towards the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Christopher Alexander (1926-1982) - 1948 Shoe Polish Drawing, A Portly Man
By Christopher Alexander
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine figurative portrait of a middle aged gentleman by the British artist Christopher Alexander ARE ARCA (1926-1982). Through a delicate treatm...
Category

20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

S. Stokr - Fine 1966 Oil, The Traveller
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine characterful Scandinavian School portrait of an elderly man in the street, signed by the artist 'S. Stokr' and dated 1966. The man carries a stick and a large sack, while wear...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

I Was Talking To Marat - Contemporary Figurative Oil, Expressionism Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Born in 1966 in Wroclaw. Works mainly in oil and acrylic painting. He studied at Wroclaw Academy of Fine Arts in the studio of Professor Konrad Jarodzki and Andrzej Klimczak Dobrzani...
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Consolation. 2020., canvas, pastel, 55, 5x31 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Consolation. 2020., canvas, pastel, 55,5x31 cm Composition with figures
Category

2010s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Canvas

Overflight over the city. 1947, paper, mixed media, 23x20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Overflight over the city. 1947, paper, mixed media, 23x20 cm Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his relatives give his arti...
Category

1940s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor

By The Roll Of A Dice - 21st Century, Contemporary Painting, Modern Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media

Good morning. 2018. Oil on canvas, 100x130 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Good morning. 2018. Oil on canvas, 100x130 cm
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Saint. 2020. Oil on canvas, 110x120 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The Saint. 2020. Oil on canvas, 110x120 cm
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Dreamer #3. 2018. Oil on canvas, 120x130 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Dreamer #3. 2018. Oil on canvas, 120x130 cm
Category

2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Farmers - Oil Painting by Roberto De Francisci - 2011
Located in Roma, IT
Farmers (original Italian title "Momenti Preziosi") is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 2011 by the Italian artist Roberto De Francisci...
Category

2010s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Glass, Oil

Collective farmer. 1980, watercolor on paper, 57, 5x58 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Collective farmer. 1980, watercolor on paper, 57,5x58 cm Dzidra Bauma (1930) Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions,...
Category

1980s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Mid 20th Century French Fauvist Painting - Amazing Colors - pupil of Andre Lhote
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Figure' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 signed gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 13 x 10 inches Fabulous 1970s abstract goauche painting. The colours used i...
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Mid-20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Mid 20th Century French Fauvist Painting - Amazing Colors - pupil of Andre Lhote
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Figure' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 signed gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 10 x 13 inches Fabulous 1970s abstract goauche painting. The colours used i...
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Mid-20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Mid 20th Century French Fauvist Painting - Amazing Colors - pupil of Andre Lhote
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Figure' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 9.75 x 12.5 inches Fabulous 1970s abstract goauche painting. The colours used in t...
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Mid-20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Mid 20th Century French Fauvist Painting - Amazing Colors - pupil of Andre Lhote
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Figure' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 signed gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 19.75 x 25.75 inches Fabulous 1970s abstract goauche painting. The colours...
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Mid-20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Mid 20th Century French Fauvist Painting - Amazing Colors - pupil of Andre Lhote
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Abstract Figure' Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996 gouache painting on artist paper, framed size: 20 x 13 inches Fabulous 1970s abstract goauche painting. The colours used in this ...
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Mid-20th Century Fauvist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Dynamic self-portrait. 1972. Cardboard, oil, 37x36, 5 cm + gift book
Located in Riga, LV
Dynamic self-portrait. 1970, cardboard, oil, 37x36,5 cm + gift book about artist Vladimirs Glušenkovs Painting published in the book "Vladimirs Glušenkovs", Ed .: Neputns, 2018, on L...
Category

1970s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cardboard, Oil

Sight. Vysotsky. 2009, oil on canvas, 80x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Frown / Vysotsky /2009, oil on canvas, 80x80 cm
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The colors of the soul - 10. 2017. Oil on canvas, 30x30 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The colors of the soul - 10. 2017. Oil on canvas, 30x30 cm Fantasy painting woman face Kristine Kvitka (1983) Kristine Kvitka is a Latvian artist, born in Riga in 1983, currently li...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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An elegant and sophisticated decorative touch in any living space, portrait paintings have remained popular throughout the years and are widely loved pieces of art for display in many homes today.

Portrait paintings are at least as old as ancient Egypt, where realistic, lifelike depictions of the recently deceased — commonly known as “mummy portraits” — were painted on wooden panels and affixed to mummies as part of the burial tradition.

For centuries, painters have used portraiture as a means of expressing a subject’s nobility, societal status and authority. Portraits were given as gifts in Renaissance Europe, and a portrait artist might have been commissioned to help mark a significant occasion such as a wedding or a promotion to high office. Prior to the advent of photography, which eventually replaced painted portraits as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. And during the 18th century in particular, if an artist commissioned for a portrait struggled with how to adequately memorialize and capture a subject’s likeness, sometimes a portrait painting wasn’t completed for up to a year.

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